Johnny Martorano

Johnny Martorano (13 December 1940-) was the chief executioner of the Winter Hill Gang of Boston.

Biography
Johnny Martorano was born in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1940 to a Sicilian immigrant father and a mother of English descent. He grew up in the Irish enclave of East Milton, and he turned down seven football scholarships before becoming a full-time mobster under Stephen Flemmi at the age of 25. He became one of the Winter Hill Gang's most prolific enforcers, carrying out hits on rivals from the Patriarca crime family. In 1979, Martorano fled to Florida after he was indicted for a horse race-fixing scheme, and he was arrested in 1995. In 1999, he agreed to a plea bargain deal, and he was released from prison in 2007 and given $20,000 to start a new life.